Articulation Textile Group

Articulation is joining the Sidney Museum in commemorating the 100 year anniversary when the Armistice was signed ending World War I in Europe.  Six Articulation members will each install a body of work exploring their personal war experiences. The Sidney Museum will have many artefacts on display illustrating Canada's involvement in past wars up to today's UN Peace Keepers. The exhibition is in the Sidney Museum, 2423 Beacon Avenue, Sidney BC V8L 1X5.  It opens October 16th and closes November 29, 2018. Artist-led tours are available. Please call Alyssa, Assitant Director, at 250 655 6355 to book a group tour. Articulation visits the war memorial in Weyburn Saskatchewan. Unlike other projects, the individual WAR bodies of work did not come out of a specific annual Study Session. Over the past few years, Articulation members have visited war-related museums and memorial sites whenever they have been together to do research. Each Articulation member

In 1930 Weyburn Mental Hospital, Saskatchewan was the largest building in Canada. Post WWII battle disorders caused a peak of the in-patient population in the hospital. The Soo Line Historical Museum in Weyburn has a large room of artifacts from the hospital, many of which are rather horrifying. They also have a collection of art painted by patients as a result of the art therapy program. A project Articulation members are working on is a personal response to war. Some of the members are looking at how war affects the whole family not just those who go to war.  The Soo Line Museum proved to be a rich primary resource for some members. Ingrid Lincoln, Donna Clement, Mandy Onchulenko. Equipped to carry out research: sketchbook/notebook, camera, a bag to hold pens, glue stick and gathered materials, sturdy walking shoes, dressed in layers and prepared for all weathers. But we do stop for meals. Leann, our host, had scouted out a number of different places for u

Articulation meeting under Weyburn's war memorial. This is a hint for an upcoming body of work. Another exhibition we visited during the Weyburn Fibre Art Walk was FAN's (Fibre Art Network) travelling show "Abstracted." Artists paired up to express an idea or phrase, one artist working in a representational style and the other artist in an abstracted style. Above, 'Colours To Live By' showing houses typically found on the rocky east coast of Canada. Marianne Parsons used raw edged machine applique in a representational style. While Karen Johnson worked in a more simplified style, also using the raw edge machine applique technique, 'Nature's Patterns' Left - Dale MacEwan, representational. Right - Deb Tyson, abstract. Both worked in the same colour palette, but different techniques produced quite different results. 'Portal' Left - Lily Thorne, representational Right - Patt Wilson, abstract

Articulation members: Ingrid Lincoln, Donna clement, Amanda Onchulenko, off to see another exhibition in Weyburn's Art Walk. We all enjoyed looking at Jaynie Himsl's collection of work. It stimulated a conversation about one's own style being connected to a particular technique. How one takes something and makes it one's own after many hours of working a threaded needle, sitting in front of a machine, wringing dyed cloth or squeezing wool fibres to make felt. Jaynie takes her inspiration from her natural environment and her garden. Her simplified macro or micro views are expressed using threads and a sewing machine.  She has developed a particular technique that is now identified with her style of expression. More yarn bombing. That means there is another fibre exhibition nearby. Monika Kinner-Whalen is another Saskatchewan artist inspired by what she sees around her. She also uses thread and her sewing machine but to quite a differe

An exhibition we all enjoyed was 'All Beings Confluence,' an interactive community art project spearheaded by Saskatchewan artist Martha Cole. She runs workshops in different communities across North America giving guidance on how to make large, transparent panels. She then loans collections of panels, according to the number requested, to be hung in a wide variety of spaces in many different communities. Viewers walk between the panels to enjoy works up close and to see the layered effects as different panels work together, such as these hens scratching beneath the flowers behind. Each panel is about one living being. It was interesting to note how many weedy-type plants were chosen when so much of the landscape is covered in commercial crops. This female connection with 'weedy' plants is from the time when women gathered them to feed and care for their families. This ancient knowledge continues to surface in women's artwork today. It is typical o

Here is Articulation working hard on their 2015 Retreat - at Moose Jaw's Temple Gardens Hotel and Spa . From left: Lesley Turner, Ingrid Lincoln, Amanda Onchulenko, Donna Clement, Wendy Klotz and Leann Clifford taking the picture. Unfortunately, Shannon Wardroper couldn't make it to this retreat. Here we all are, off to our water yoga class in geothermal water with the same mineral composition as the waters in Bath, England. After going through the yoga possess outside on the rooftop patio, we transitioned into the hot pool and moved through the poses again. We sipped an ice cold glass of water then rested. One of the main activities of the week was to get an idea of the sort of fibre art currently being produced in Canada's western provinces. Weyburn was the perfect stop with its 'Fibre Art Destination 2015' event with 16 different exhibitions. We had to work hard to see them all over the 2 days we had in Weyburn. The first stop was at t

The 3rd Canadian showing of Articulation and Material Girls' bodies of work opened in the Frazee Gallery on November 8th, 2013. ReBecca Paterson made it all happen. Bay of Fundy work and the River Thames work was hung together. Touching is allowed/encouraged       The exhibition is open until January 10th, 2014 Congratulations ReBecca, on presenting the work so well in the beautiful space you found.

Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters is opening in New Brunswick at the Saint John Arts Centre. Articulation, a Canadian exhibiting art group working with textiles and fibre as a fine art medium, takes traditional fiber art techniques in new and contemporary directions. Since 2004 they have organised annual study sessions to unique places in Canada, which serve to unify the resulting individual bodies of work when shown in their group exhibitions across Canada. A recent study of the Bay of Fundy coastline has generated a new path for Articulation leading to exhibiting internationally with another contemporary fiber arts group, Material Girls, based in London, England, who were inspired by their iconic River Thames. The resulting combined body of work, ARTICULATED MATERIALS: BRIDGING WATERS, consists of one 2D artwork each from ten Material Girls members and ten Articulation members. In addition, each group will have available more works to include in the exhibit

Our co-exhibitors The Material Girls have been getting lots of press with our show. Here is a wonderful article published in WORKBOX magazine about the exhibit...

This video was just released of the show. Two of the Articulation artists, Lesley Turner and Ingrid Lincoln, that were present at the opening to talk about the exhibit.

To let you know of our latest show, here are the details. The show is in Victoria, British Columbia. You are invited to attend: The Victoria College Of Art - Textile Exhibition by Articulation NARRATIVE ARTICULATIONS is a show of cross-Canada work by nine Canadian contemporary textile artists, all City and Guilds of London Institute trained. Each year the group, Articulation, goes to a special place in Canada to do a study together, then they return to their respective studios across Canada to produce a body of work based on the s tudy. The next year they exhibit the work. Articulation has had two residencies at the Banff Center, Banff, Alberta. They are currently working on a body of work to be exhibited in the Whyte Museum, Banff, in September 2011. Curated by Lesley Turner, the Victoria College of Art - Fine Art Textiles instructor, the free exhibition will fill the walls at the college with over 50 textile-based works. The artists will be in attendance during the opening reception

(Left) Donna Clement, 'Fern', 14" x 14", wool & machine thread; hand-dyed wool, fulled, free motion embroidery. (Right) Leann Clifford, 'Autumn Leaves - Pealing Bark', 17" x 29", cotton, dryer sheets, rayon; hand dyed, hand embroidered . (Left) Wendy Klotz , 'Break the Glass', 22" x 18", machine embroidery threads, plastic, seeds; machine embroidery, (Middle) Donna Clement, ' Western Red Cedar', 14" x 14", wool & machine thread; hand-dyed wool, fulled, free motion embroidered. (Right) Donna Clement, 'Fern' Ingrid Lincoln, 'Beneath', 18" x 18", cotton fabric, paper, paint, silk organza; batik, painted paper, machine stitched, burned. (Left) Leann Clifford, 'Cactus Landscape', 20 x 25, cotton, felt, tyvek , beads; hand dyed, hand embroidered. (Right) Ingrid Lincoln, 'Algae', 18 x 18, silk, cotton fabric, rayon, embroidery thread; gutta resist, silk pain